COMPONENT FOR NETWORK SYSTEM

• US 20140040458A1
• Filed: 06/27/2011
• Published: 02/06/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 06/26/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Ahn, Juhno, Kim, Yanghwan, Lee, Hoonbong, Lee, Koonseok, Kim, Minchel, Kim, Yanghoon, Park, Seungje, Seo, Eunkyung, Son, Younghyo, Yeo, Sangmin
• Granted Patent: US 9,690,684 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/224
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3058 Monitoring arrangements for monitoring environmental properties or parameters of the computing system or of the computing system component, e.g. monitoring of power, currents, temperature, humidity, position, vibrations thermal management in cooling arrangements of a computing system G06F1/206
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3065 Monitoring arrangements determined by the means or processing involved in reporting the monitored data error or fault reporting or logging G06F11/0766
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/06 Energy or water supply

Abstract

A component for a network system is provided. The component includes an information notification part capable of notifying of one or more pieces of certain information among energy information, additional information except the energy information, and new information based on one or more the energy information and the additional information and a control unit controlling the information notification part. The information notification part notifies of the certain information when satisfying conditions for notifying of the certain information.

Claims

1. A component for a network system, the component comprising:

an information notification part capable of notifying of one or more pieces of certain information among energy information, additional information except the energy information, and new information based on one or more the energy information and the additional information; and

a control unit controlling the information notification part,

wherein the information notification part notifies of the certain information when satisfying conditions for notifying of the certain information.

2. The component of claim 1, wherein the energy information comprises energy cost information and information except energy cost,

wherein the energy cost information comprises one or more of cost for energy itself and energy consumption cost, and

wherein the information except energy cost comprises one or more of energy reduction, emergency situation, grid safety, energy increase, operation priority, and energy consumption amount.

3. The component of claim 1, wherein the energy information comprises one or more of present energy information, past energy information, and estimated future energy information.

4. The component of claim 1, wherein the energy information comprises one or more of information in a certain time period, information at a certain time point, information related to operation, and accumulated information related to operation.

5. The component of claim 1, wherein the energy information comprises one or more of a number of residual times, a residual cost, and a residual amount of power capable of operating before a reference energy cost.

6. The component of claim 1, wherein the energy information comprises information on the kind of sources supplying energy.

7. The component of claim 1, wherein the additional information comprises one or more of environment information, time information, information related to one or more components, information related other components, and a user using the one or more components.

8. The component of claim 1, wherein the control unit receives or generates one or more of the energy information, the additional information, and the new information based on one or more the energy information and the additional information.

9. The component of claim 1, wherein information notified by the information notification part is capable of being changed depending on a change of certain information.

10. The component of claim 1, wherein the information notification part notifies of the certain information any one of a case of inputting one of the kind of information to be notified and a commence of selecting a subject, a case of sensing one of a contact of a human body and the human body, a case of satisfying an environment condition previously set, a case of satisfying a time previously set, a case where a value sensed by a certain sensor becomes a certain reference, a case corresponding to an operation restriction condition previously set in relation to one of the energy information and the additional information, a case where the control unit recognizes new information, a case where one of operation and phase of the component varies, and a case where one of phase and kind of certain information recognized by the control unit varies.

11. The component of claim 1, wherein the condition for notifying of the certain information is capable of varying depending on the kind of the certain information.

12. The component of claim 1, wherein a time period of notifying of the certain information is set according to the kind of the certain information.

13. The component of claim 1, wherein a notification method is set differently depending on a subject of the certain information notified by the information notification part.

14. The component of claim 1, wherein a notification method of the certain information is capable of varying with a change of the certain information.

15. The component of claim 1, wherein the information notification part comprises one or more of a display unit, a light emitting unit, a sound generation unit, an aroma generation unit, and a vibration generation unit.

16. The component of claim 1, wherein the certain information comprises one or more of character information and graph information.

17. The component of claim 16, wherein the character information and the graph information are displayed simultaneously on a screen, and

wherein any one of the character information and the graph information is capable of displayed being enlarged on the screen.

18. The component of claim 17, wherein another of the character information and the graph information is capable of disappearing from the screen or being reduced.

19. The component of claim 17, wherein any one of the character information and the graph information is selected and enlarged or any one of the character information and the graph information is enlarged automatically after the elapse of a certain time from a phase where the character information and the graph information are displayed.

20. The component of claim 16, wherein, in a phase where any one of the character information and the graph information is displayed on the screen, the displayed information is capable of being converted into another one of the character information and the graph information.